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' F. M. GUINZBURG.

COMBINED GIGAR CUTTER AND MATCH BOX.

No. 800,707. Patented June 1'7, 1884.

ll'Nrrn STATES ATENT Erica.

FERNANDO M. GUINZBURG, OF NEW" YORK, N. Y.

COMBINED CIGAR-CUTTER AND MATCH-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 300,707,dated June 1'7, 1884.

Application filed February 16, 1884. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, FERNANDO M. GUINZ- BURG, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of New York, State and county of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Cigar- Outter and Match-Box, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had'to the drawings accompanying the same, and forming part of this specification.

My invention consists in a match-box having a cigar-clipper on its lid, and aspring forming an extra chamber in said box, through which the cigar-clips find their way and fall out, the object of said invention being to provide a match-box in which a cigar-cutter operates conjointly with a spring, which divides the box into two chambers, and which acts at the same time as the lid catch and opener.

In the accompanying drawings, (which form part of this specification, and in which like. letters refer to similar parts in the several figures,) Figure 1 shows a broadside and cen-. tral section of the complete match-box on the line m w on Fig.' 2, Fig. 2 showing a central longitudinal section of the same on line :0 at on Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the match-box, &c., Fig. 4 being a modification thereof.

A is the 1natch-holding box, having the lid or cap A hinged to itself, on the front or catch side of which lid A the cigar clipper or knife 0 is secured with rivets or otherwise.

B is a double-acting and free-ended spring, its two extremities, b and I), being beaked and so properly shaped as to act on the front and on the back or hinge side of the lid A, respectively. The spring B is shaped to lie snugly on the inside, back, and bottom part of the match-box, and is held in its place by the rivets e e e e e, forming by its position a partition-wall inside the match-box, so as to separate the same into the match-holding compartment proper, g, and a chute 0r compartment, f, through which the cigar-clips may drop out by way of its lower opening, f. The beak'end b of the spring B is bevel-shaped,

so as to permit the upper and correspondingly point near to one edge of the spring B and into the same, is pressed in far enough to disengage parts I) and c. The cover in closing, 011 its way down, will clip off a cigar-point that may be in its way, being inserted through the aperture (Z on or in the front or side of the box A. The cut-off piece or clip will find its way out of the clip-chute by dropping through the opening f at its bottom.

Having thus described the main points or features of my device, I do not, in order to effect its purpose, limit the construction of its several parts nor their respective arrangement to the exact forms or places shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3. My device may have the modified form of a clip-knife shown in Fig. 4c, and the cigar may be inserted in either of v the cut-outs, as shown by said Fig. 4. In this instance the knife 0 is shaped rectangularly, so as to lie snugly on and fit on the inside of that part of the lid to which it is secured, having a triple cutting-edge, in order to clip off points of cigars thrust in its way fromeither side or front, as the cigar-inserting cut-outs may be placed on any of those sides, as shown by Fig. 4. The edge of the clip-knife must not necessarily be of a straight line or rightangled, but may'have a curved or angular line of any degree desired, as it is obvious that the affixing of any kind of a clip-knife having any of the shapes aforementioned onto the part of a match-box lid, as herein referred to, and

in a similar arrangement to the other part of the match-box, as indicated on the drawings, will effect the same purpose that I have in view.

I am well aware of the existence of sundry devices for alike purpose as mine, which, however, are more or less complicated in mechanism, and do not act simultaneously with the act of closing the match-box, and are on account of their lack of simplicity less durable, and at the same time expensive, in conse I have avoided and overcome their de-.

a cutter having two or more cutting-edges, and catch 0, of the box-body A, having two or 15 more notches or openings, d, and a spring, B

b 6, located in the box-body, as described, whereby two chambers, g and f, are formed, the latter having an opening, f, and connecting with the opening or openings (1, as 20 set forth.

FERNANDO M. GUINZBURG.

\Vitnesses:

I. ErrRLIoH, P. BUOHBINDER. 

